From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELv9y2ZiZMzZGUQSJ9Q0uym/eCvl4PwKDH5iQLS0DfJTvvl7d+Y3PwpAkcDYML/gU3ZUu0yb ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; t=1520261038; cv=none; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; b=0BKcrYrXDoq4tNrRqHKkXaXHZ1IiYdQkMCFWKD3pULLTm6cw0Q36nZTLLRDJ2nWflj OppWYDOALvJDC/C0eTAnS5LqGknaT97DsM9H6NGus25WjYgMsiH5VCsUvg0oohYsyI8M ClZMOYEq8AmsVHIYiOuvHg33IlzxnPAwhd/OtTKNrcUp7yy8iFYZ7RYRYX4+sPO5o460 Kcv1TXC+tiNPruBnNyBvoKK4yOa4jnTgYq2Uqna42pQzkW0rFz9dQS8EmZHSjiMvIihp 4Aesy2GTxRd/n33gK5T5AiCmeUlv4X81xDko4dp8CMdv3cz59oIFa5c3Wk8v6xpB7WEE Nfdw== ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=arc-20160816; h=content-transfer-encoding:content-language:in-reply-to:mime-version :user-agent:date:message-id:organization:from:references:to:subject :cc:arc-authentication-results; bh=la+HdAC2enIU2MvQi+FayoGan2W9o/coAiFMnagrwNk=; b=Td8Bvir7axRDfz0ILqOqXEivKaqlLUuyl0cm1lMcJQH5aKrGpyKYjblk9RZG80RYVz XztQnFlJNCAcoveR/IOuIg0ynI859gTPHNXg1bsUHEviWEFSdCfPFTwnR2Ny1hso6bCO EPnWkSaLDNXHbdx6/utjlTipU85DHb5DJvYNGdodOn8+wk7eluh+jaXIDks9z/mBkNCF YAMsyMikvCIgZokEMhbZvm+g9TPWz/IRJGn7lKWSIeY1DkMIQ/PCM7aDkhTbfAZhLHjI +rNyuK59SoYg3N2PU/ZhvukVeW87F9jRGhAlOFN7p9z20C9vwFOT2n5jQPFqgl7+3vty +nUA== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sudeep.holla@arm.com designates 217.140.101.70 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=sudeep.holla@arm.com Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of sudeep.holla@arm.com designates 217.140.101.70 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=sudeep.holla@arm.com Cc: Sudeep Holla , ALKML , LKML , DTML , Alexey Klimov , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/20] firmware: arm_scmi: refactor in preparation to support per-protocol channels To: Jonathan Cameron References: <1519403030-21189-1-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> <1519403030-21189-14-git-send-email-sudeep.holla@arm.com> <20180305153549.00000f39@huawei.com> From: Sudeep Holla Organization: ARM Message-ID: <1e824524-5ed3-dfbc-b2fb-6a15631b44cd@arm.com> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 14:43:52 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180305153549.00000f39@huawei.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-getmail-retrieved-from-mailbox: INBOX X-GMAIL-THRID: =?utf-8?q?1593209592530957527?= X-GMAIL-MSGID: =?utf-8?q?1594109237949320320?= X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 05/03/18 14:35, Jonathan Cameron wrote: > On Fri, 23 Feb 2018 16:23:43 +0000 > Sudeep Holla wrote: > >> In order to support per-protocol channels if available, we need to >> factor out all the mailbox channel information(Tx/Rx payload and >> channel handle) out of the main SCMI instance information structure. >> >> This patch refactors the existing channel information into a separate >> chan_info structure. >> >> Cc: Arnd Bergmann >> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman >> Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla > A little odd to present a series to mainline that does a fairly important > refactor mid way through. Why not push this down to the start and always support > the separate chan_info structure? > Since the development started long back and this was added later, I preferred to keep functionality working and didn't want to push change down in the stack. -- Regards, Sudeep